Sad news EastEnders legend, Elizabeth Kelly, has died. Kelly, who famously played Nellie Ellis on the soap, was 104. She starred as Pauline Fowler’s sharp-tongued aunt on EastEnders for seven years. Kelly also appeared in Coronation Street as Edie Burgess and had appearances in Home and Away, Grange Hill, Emerdale, and The Bill. She also […]
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*This article contains details of sexual assault and rape.
The former Met Police officer is being sentenced for kidnapping, raping, and murdering Everard.
Wayne Couzens handcuffed and arrested Sarah Everard on a fake Covid patrol before he murdered her, a court heard on Wednesday.
Couzens, an armed protection officer, kidnapped Everard off the street as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3 of this year. The 48-year-old, who has since been dismissed from the force, then drove Everard to Kent where he murdered the 33-year-old marketing executive. He was arrested on March 9 and admitted charges of kidnap, rape and murder in July.Opening a two-day sentencing hearing at London's Old Bailey, Tom Little QC said Couzens, who was a serving Met police officer at the time, got Everard into a car he had hired “by handcuffing her as well as showing her his warrant card”.
The court heard that a couple travelling in a car saw Everard being kidnapped, with the female passenger watching as Everard was handcuffed, believing she was witnessing an undercover arrest.